If we find ourselves with a desire that nothing in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that we were made for another world.
C. S. LEWISYou can make anything by writing.
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Eating and reading are two pleasures that combine admirably.
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I have learned now that while those who speak about one’s miseries usually hurt, those who keep silence hurt more.
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Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art. It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which give value to survival.
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Things never happen the same way twice.
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No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.
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One of the most cowardly things ordinary people do is to shut their eyes to facts.
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The death of a beloved is an amputation.
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Nothing is really ours until we share it.
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Mere change is not growth. Growth is the synthesis of change and continuity, and where there is no continuity there is no growth.
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I don’t pray so that I can change God. I pray so that God can change me.
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Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.
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We meet no ordinary people in our lives.
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When we lose one blessing, another is often most unexpectedly given in its place.
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God wants a child’s heart and a grownup’s head.
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If you love deeply, you’re going to get hurt badly. But it’s still worth it.
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Write about what really interests you, whether it is real things or imaginary things, and nothing else.
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We must stop regarding unpleasant or unexpected things as interruptions of real life. The truth is that interruptions are real life.
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I can’t imagine a man really enjoying a book and reading it only once.
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Miracles are a retelling in small letters of the very same story which is written across the whole world in letters too large for some of us to see.
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Mental pain is less dramatic than physical pain, but it is more common and also more hard to bear.
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You don’t have a soul. You are a Soul. You have a body.
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God allows us to experience the low points of life in order to teach us lessons that we could learn in no other way.
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Crying is all right in its way while it lasts. But you have to stop sooner or later, and then you still have to decide what to do.
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The fact that our heart yearns for something Earth can’t supply is proof that Heaven must be our home.
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God doesn’t want something from us. He simply wants us.
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The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of sixty minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.
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